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"That's my job, so I hold my hands up as well as the lads down there. Sometimes those set-pieces are really key because if we'd have got the set-piece right down at that end, we wouldn't be defending at our end and conceding."

He added: "We thought for the first time in the game we'd just got a little bit of pressure on them, just had a couple of attacks and got the ball. We were pressing a little bit higher in their half.

"It was a set-piece that we'd just got on top of and they just broke away and put the ball in the back of the net."

Miles Welch-Hayes was missing with a stomach bug (Image: Simon Howe)

The two sides meet again on New Year's Day in the reverse fixture, with Rollo and boss Jerry Gill having learned much from Tuesday's defeat.

"The games are always tight against them and they're a good footballing team.

"We adapted the shape slightly to try and combat that a little bit, but even in the first half you could notice that it wasn't quite right and we were trying to work out what was the best formation. We just didn't get going.

After the second occasion City conceded, Opi Edwards had to stand in between Nick McCootie and Frankie Artus, who had engaged in a heated debate about the manner of the goal.

Rollo, however, was not worried by the incident.

He said: "We ask them when they're out on the pitch to demand from each other, to manage the game properly.

"At times today some of the players felt there was a little bit of management that needed to be done on the field.

"As long as it's done in the right way, we like them to demand a little bit more off each other and Nick McCootie's felt that of the second goal, the lad got a cross in a little bit too easy and he was just questioning it, so we don't mind that."

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Miles Welch-Hayes was missing from the game with a stomach bug and was replaced in the starting line-up by George Rigg.

Andy Watkins remained sidelined after pulling his calf on a run the day before the Chippenham game, but was in attendance at Twerton Park, while Anthony Straker was again seen jogging while his team-mates warmed up.